Bøger af Alison Piepmeier

""Unexpected" explores parenting, prenatal testing, and Down Syndrome"--

Images of the corseted, domestic, white middle-class female and the black woman as slave mammy or jezebel loom large in studies of 19th-century womanhood. Alison Piepmeier focuses on women's bodies as a site for their public self-construction,and presents women's public embodiment as multiple, transitional, strategic, playful, and contested.

Asks what the zines can tell us about the inner lives of girls and women over the last twenty years